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Perceived occupational risk of infection among hospital mortuary attendants in Nyanza Province, Kenya
(Int J Innov Res Stud, 2014)
Introduction: A high proportion of the estimated 1.7 million people who die annually in Kenya occur in hospital settings and are laid in a mortuary before burial. Nyanza Province has a high morbidity and mortality rate, ...
Community Participation Medico-Legal Concepts to Identify Unclaimed or Missing Dead Bodies from Public Mortuaries to Improve Public Health in Western Kenya
(Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, 2017)
Community participation in medico-legal form bench-mark of health determinants and quality integrated services towards criminal
justice support in health. Globally, over 44 million cases of unclaimed bodies or missing ...
Polymorphisms in Fc gamma receptor (FcγRIIIA-176 F/V) and Toll-like receptor (TLR9 [-1237 T/C]) are associated with protection against severe malarial anemia an...
(American Society for Microbiology, 2012-10-08)
Understanding the immunogenetic basis of naturally acquired immunity to
Plasmodium falciparum infection would aid in designing a rationally-based malaria vaccine.
Variants within the Fc gamma receptors (FcγRs) mediate ...
(− 7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels
(Bio Med Central, 2013)
In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe
malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb)< 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most
common clinical manifestation of severe ...
Diagnosis disclosure to adolescents living with HIV in rural Kenya improves antiretroviral therapy adherence and immunologic outcomes: A retrospective cohort study
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Background & aims Emphasis on adolescent HIV has increased worldwide as antiretroviral treatment has greatly extended life expectancies of HIV-positive children. Few evidence-based guidelines exist on the optimal time to ...
Sex in the Green Lodging: The Voices of Medically Circum-cised Fishermen on the Shores of Lake Victoria, Western Ken-ya
(HSOA Journal of AIDS Clinical Research and STDs, 2018-03-22)
Fishing communities have been reported as one of the highest-risk groups for HIV infection in Kenya and other countries with high HIV and AIDS prevalence. Studies along Lake Victoria region, where HIV and AIDS had a ...
Developing and implementing a pediatric emergency care curriculum for providers at district level hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study in Kenya
(Frontiers, 2017)
Introduction: Emergency medicine is a relatively new field in sub-Saharan Africa and dedicated training in pediatric emergency care is limited. While guidelines from the African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM) ...
Child health in peri-urban communities of Kenya: determinants and challenges
(Academic Journals, 2010)
Infant and child death in developing countries constitute the largest age category of mortality. This is
because children under the age of five years are the group most vulnerable to diseases caused by
inadequate child ...
Pedestrian safety and the built environment: a review of the risk factors
(SAGE Publications, 2015-11)
Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that
about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of trained traditional birth attendants on HIV/AIDS, Kenya
(Baraton Interdisplinary Research Journal, 2012-06-02)
HIV and AIDS is a global pandemic with cases being reported from virtually every country in the world. There is a growing awareness in many African countries that the Trained Traditional Birth Attendants (TTBAs) have a ...